#I love my therapist

[twotales]

Me: I've been writing a lot lately

Therapist: Oh yeah? What are you writing?

Me: Oh- uh- nothing really just fanfic 😅

Therapist: Fanfic is writing, you have been doing it for over twenty years. It's something you love and there is nothing wrong with that. Nobody bats an eye when people write cover music, or a movie based on a book. It is not nothing, it's a big deal, especially for you and the community you share it with.

Me: sniffling 🥹 okay

[angria]

Session went better than expected, even though I was quiet for most of it. T said something that really helped calm down the internal chaos.

He actually said it twice, trying to emphasize its impact: "I am not trying to decrease the attachment in here, between us. I want to increase and improve your attachment with others and, more importantly, with yourself. So that you do not feel as vulnerable in here. So that you do not believe all your sense of safety, attachment, and care comes from our time in session. The point is I am not trying to decrease anything in here; I want to increase out there and within yourself."

The distinction between decrease/increase clicked in my head and immediately could feel myself relaxing a little. A lot more was said, but that is the thing he wanted me to take away. That he doesn't have any agenda or some secret plan to change or decrease my attachment to him. His responsibility to me is to improve and build upon my sense of worthiness, safety, and attachment to self and others.

[plushiebi]

therapy is great it’s like having someone hold your hand but also punching u in the solar plexus at the same time

[notverycolonthreeofyou]

Came out as a South Park fanfic writer to my therapist,,, hardest thing I’ve ever done 😔

[rrait2q]

distance relationship

[woolysocks]

starting the day feeling down in the dumps only to have therapy and feel light as a feather after call that a series of fortunate events

[gothiic-gray]

“listen, he has the emotional capacity of a breadstick.”

-my therapist about my ex

[keter-kan]

The way (and I love her so much) my therapist is LITERATE?!?! I sit down with an I Feel statement and this warm and kindhearted woman smiles at me and READS ME FRONT, BACK, UPSIDE DOWN, AND FUCKING BACKWARDS like I know it's her job to Explain the Things to Me but she has just read, reread, annotated, and written an analytical essay on my emotional intelligence and mental health. When she hits me with the "I think we should unpack that :)" i KNOW I'm about to get the spark notes on the last three chapters fed to me like a baby bird.

[thunderc1an]

I wore my hatsune miku shirt to therapy today

[granulesofsand]

We go to our therapist with media pretty much whenever we have the chance to consume it. We struggle with the more subtle idealizations, like extreme violence as necessary to canon or power as an attractive trait. Our therapist occasionally asks us whether interacting with this media is in our best interests… like they don’t do exactly the same thing. Don’t pretend like we haven’t seen the other tabs on screenshare. I know you talk to your therapist about the same damn thing, and he’s got the same problem. We’re all like this. That’s why it’s harm reduction and not abstinence.

[angria]

Talked about Monday's meltdown around the intimacy topic. As I'm trying to describe what happened when I dissociated in session (and the subsequent drunken spiral), I started to shut down again, curling into myself. Hiding. Every single time when her comes up.

I barely could say that I'm afraid something happened, but I just don't remember anything. That whole time period is a massive black hole. T said he hadn't forgotten about the secret I told him a few months ago. Immediately flinched and turned away, covering my face.

After a few moments, T asked me to look at him. I slowly shook my head, barely able to move. He asked again, saying he wants me to see him when he says this. Still covering part of my face, I quickly glanced at him. He said, "Look at me. There is nothing for you to be ashamed of. You were made to feel bad about yourself. You were made to feel like you needed to hide. And it is not your fault. You were a child. And it is not your fault."

My face crumbled. Every time I tried to look away and hide, T continued pointing at his eyes. For me to maintain eye contact, guiding me through lowering my hands and sitting up straight. I kept crying I want to hide. Smiling with care, he said, "You don't need to hide anymore. You have a voice. You have a therapist, a psychiatrist, people all around you who care about you and want you in their lives. You are good and worthy. No more hiding."

[shadedbunny]

POV: you’re telling your therapist about all the good advice your parents have given you over the years, and then she says that you don’t have to do that because it could be mentally injuring, and then you just rethink about everything your parents have ever said.

[madsthebat]

Getchu a therapist who purchases herself a certification course so she can understand autism better and be better able to help you when you bring up potentially being autistic to her

[sam-not-sammie]

TW: DV

Hearing my therapist mention today how my C-PTSD diagnosis stems from being in an extended domestic violence/domestic abuse situation really put things into perspective how badly my abusers fucked me up. Like, I knew it felt bad but I didn’t realize HOW bad it actually was.

[oh-my-damn]

Y'all think you're in therapy but you're not in therapy like I'M in therapy

God I love my therapist. Best in the business fr

@taylorswift @taylornation 🫶🏻

[aspens-treehouse]

time for ✨therapy✨